selvage

From early modern Dutch selfegghe (Modern Dutch zelfkant (“selvage”)), equivalent to self +‎ edge.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlvɪd͡ʒ/

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selvage (countable and uncountable, plural selvages)

1. (weaving) The edge of a woven fabric, where the weft (side-to-side) threads run around the warp (top to bottom) threads, creating a finished edge.
2. Any edge of fabric finished so as to prevent raveling.
   • 1803, Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature‎, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:

     Her stately limbs the gather'd folds surround, / And spread their golden selvage on the ground.

3. (printing) The excess area of any printed or perforated sheet, such as the border on a sheet of postage stamps or the wide margins of an engraving.
4. (geology) A distinct border of a mass of igneous rock. It is usually fine-grained or glassy due to rapid cooling.
5. (geology) Clay-like material found along and around a geological fault.
6. The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes[1]
7. (mining) That part of a lode adjacent to the walls on either side.

selvage (third-person singular simple present selvages, present participle selvaging, simple past and past participle selvaged)

1. To give a selvage to (fabric).

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